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हिंसा

हिंसा

Hindi

Noun

हिंसा (hiṅsā) f (Urdu spelling ہنسا)

  1. violence
  2. injury
  3. malice
  4. slaughter
  5. harm

References

  • John T. Platts (accessed 07-31-2012), “A Dictionary of Urdu, Classical Hindi, and English”, in (Please provide the title of the work)

Sanskrit

Noun

हिंसा (hiṃsā) f

  1. injury, mischief, wrong, harm, hurt (said to be of three kinds: कायिक (kāyika) “personal”, वाचिक (vācika) “verbal”, and मानसिक (mānasika) “mental”)
  2. killing, slaying, destruction
  3. robbery, plunder

References

  • Vaman Shivaram Apte (accessed 07-31-2012), “The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary”, in (Please provide the title of the work)